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  1. Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy (LGMD) - Diseases | Muscular Dystrophy ...

    What is limb-girdle muscular dystrophy? Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) is a diverse group of disorders with many subtypes categorized by disease gene and inheritance. LGMD …

  2. Limb–Girdle Muscular Dystrophies Classification and Therapies

    Limb–girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMD) are muscular dystrophies that affect skeletal muscles, mostly proximal (hips and shoulder muscles). They are caused by a mutation in a gene …

  3. Limb–girdle muscular dystrophy - Wikipedia

    Limb–girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) is a genetically heterogeneous group of rare muscular dystrophies that share a set of clinical characteristics. [7] It is characterised by progressive …

  4. Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy - MedlinePlus

    Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy is a term for a group of diseases that cause weakness and wasting of the muscles in the arms and legs. The muscles most affected are those closest to …

  5. Limb girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) General

    Limb girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMDs) are rare conditions and they present differently in people, even within the same family, with regard to age of onset, areas of muscle weakness, …

  6. Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy - Johns Hopkins Medicine

    The Limb Girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMD) comprise at least a dozen different specific entities. Each of these distinct disorders is in itself rare. Patients with LGMD usually begin to …

  7. Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy | About the Disease | GARD

    Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy is a group of disorders which affect the voluntary muscles around the hips and shoulders. Males and females are affected in equal numbers. Most forms of limb …

  8. Limb girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) - NHS inform

    Limb girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMD) are rare conditions. They present differently in everyone they affect, even those in the same family. LGMD causes weakness in the shoulder …

  9. Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy - Physiopedia

    Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy (LGMD) is not a single, but a rare group of inherited genetic disorders which are characterizes by progressive weakening of shoulder and hip muscles. …

  10. Limb-girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMDs) are a group of rare progressive genetic disorders that are characterized by wasting (atrophy) and weakness of the voluntary muscles of the hip and …